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The earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan raised new concerns about the risk of another nuclear reactor disaster. The explosion of the FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT gives our citizens cause to re-examine the risk assumed by the public. At this writing, the full extent of the damage to the plant, the community, and the environment is unknown - it will take years.

At the same time concerns over the high risks associated with extracting natural gas and as noted in a Financial Times article is "energy that comes from the same place as our drinking water. Extracting it had better be safe. The political fault lines over hydraulic fracturing (hence the term fracking) have been easy to predict for anyone paying attention to the controversies over climate change and genetically modified organisms. France’s national assembly voted to ban fracking while in the US its been full steam ahead in 32 states. These are high risk alternative energy sources.

Curated by mokiethecat

What is the Fracking Process by Chesapeak Energy

Instructional, how it is done...After being made available on YouTube it was re-classified as "private" by the company.

We are leaving a link to it on EarthSayers in the event the company changes its mind and makes it available once again.

In order to maximize the production potential for a natural gas well, the shale formation must be hydraulically fractured. This video outlines and demonstrates the hydraulic fracturing process in Chesapeake Energy natural gas operations. For more information on fracking, visit www.hydraulicfracturing.com.

Here is a news/personal story about spills from a Chesapeak Energy drilling site and contamination of private and public natural resources.

Here is our January 1, 2013 article on Fracking in our blog, Sustainability Adovate.

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Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, by Professor Burleson
Portland, Oregon: Train Tankers and Tar Sands Oil
Transporting Coal through the Pacific NorthWest
The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons (trailer)
Energy: The Next 10 Years Really Matter by Alexander Van de Putte
Chinese CoExist with Coal
Natural Gas Wells in Pennsylvania: an infographic
The History of Fracking by Russell Gold
300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds
The Last Mountain
Nuclear Power Plants and Global Warming by Helen Caldicott
Nuclear: Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive by Kevin Kamps
Frac Biocides DeepLife by Sandra Steingraber
Hindsight and Foresight: 20 Years After the Exxon Valdez Spill
Community Organizing at Alliance for Nuclear Accountability Conference
Last U.S. Nuclear Test by Konstantin Kakaes
GasLand by Josh Fox
Kumi Naidoo Scales Cairn's Arctic Oil Rig
Haynesville Movie Trailer: Largest Natural Gas Field in the U.S.
Tar Sands Resistance March
Trying to Create Clean Coal Technologies by Nicholas K. Akins of AEP
TED Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy? Brand and Jacobson
A Danger on the Rails from the The New York Times
The Sinkhole That's Swallowing Louisiana by Ben Depp
Japanese Director A. Funahashi talks about his film Nuclear Nation
My Water's On Fire Tonight
Why is Coal So Angry?
Global Warming and Nuclear Energy by Amory Lovins
Fukushima's Ongoing Impact by Helen Caldicott
Making A Documentary About Haynesville by Gregory Kallenberg
Hanford Waste Treatment Plant Costs Up Another $4.5B by Tom Carpenter
Ending Nuclear Weapons by Alice Slater (2019)
Promised Land (movie trailer) with Matt Damon
Ecuadorian Indigenous Peoples opposed to oil development
Deep Drilling Fracking, Deep Pockets by Common Cause
Last of Energy Resources are in the Territories of Indigenous Peoples by Erick Gonzalez

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